Agendas Quotes - Page 9

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  Jim Wallis

  Kings, Power, Government

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• The marketing of homosexuality has an agenda, and that is to repopulate their population by recruiting the children of homosexuals.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Children, Marketing, Insane

  "Gordon Klingenschmitt, Former Navy Chaplain, Slams Obama’s Gay Marriage Stance", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Architecture, Social

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas.

  Christine Swanson

  School, Motherhood, Goal

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

  Benjamin Carson

  Pro Life, Black, Lists

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• The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Hard Times

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And so, however many people watch this thing, that's how many different opinions there will be about it. But I don't feel like it has an agenda in terms of its ideology. It just presents a story like a mirror. It's a mirror more than it is than a distorted mirror.

  Josh Radnor

  Mirrors, People, Different Opinions

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.

  Kevin Bales

  Confused, Book, Games

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• Freedom of the press is essential to the preservation of a democracy; but there is a difference between freedom and license. Editorialists who tell downright lies in order to advance their own agendas do more to discredit the press than all the censors in the world.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Order, Differences

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• It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Mean, People, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Scary, Groups

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• Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There's nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion.

  Max Lucado

  Fashion, Trying, Doe

  "Pastor/Author Max Lucado talks about seeing his bestselling book 'The Christmas Candle' turned into a movie". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.

  Jesse Jackson

  Iraq, America, Long

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au.

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• If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.

  Dana Goldstein

  Children, School, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

  David Bowie

  People, Different

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

  Jim Shepard

  Important, Trying, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack on the social state. The hidden agenda here is that when students graduate with such high debts, they rarely choose a career in public service; instead, they are forced to go into the corporate sector, and I see these conditions, in some ways, as being very calculated and as part of a larger political strategy to disempower students.

  Henry Giroux

  Careers, Political, Way

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Well, I'd say that I'm mostly drawn to people who are genuine and willing to take a step to the unknown. So when I play with these people, usually there's this sense of that 'yes, we are doing it together right at this moment without any agenda' feeling which is so exciting! It means that there is this sense of trust, that whatever I throw in the music that's happening, they will make it work and send something to work with in my direction. Hopefully they feel the same about me.

  Okkyung Lee

  Mean, Play, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I care deeply about Democratic party and our agenda and making sure that we can continue to build on President [Barack] Obama`s legacy. So any suggestion that I am doing anything other than manage this primary impartially and neutrally is ludicrous.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, President, Suggestions

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

  Jim Goldberg

  Attention, Ignored

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• These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a political agenda, fueled by the extremist rhetoric that we`ve seen from some on the hill and from people all across the country as it relates to a woman`s right to choose.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends.

  Lady Gaga

  Fake Friends, Real, People

  "Lady Gaga Talks VMAs Performance (Exclusive Interview)". Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Spiritual, Passing On, Political

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Going up to Canada is great because I'm not dealing with people carrying their agendas into the room. I'm lucky because 97% of the people who come to the show know who they are dealing with, whether they are on the left or the right, we're sharing the same frustration.

  Lewis Black

  Frustration, People, Canada

  "Interview: Lewis Black, new special, "In God We Rust," premieres midnight tonight on Comedy Central". Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Technology, Should Have, Issues

  "Empowering Technology: Implementing a U.S. Strategy". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb, 1993.

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